Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching google in basic html with lynx.

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi Travis,
Making sure your reply reaches the list.  there may be others who wondered 
as I did.
anyone know of an example of what Travis means here?
I  used google to search for years without needing an account, only 
getting one as a way to  manage files as outlined.
that, and for research, my second address, which I can no longer reach 
directly because of Google's claim that only  hackers turn off JavaScript.
Kare



On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:

> Honestly, I can't remember who wanted me to have the gmail address, but I do 
> remember it irritated me to no end.  It may have been one (or more) of the 
> various private label rights softwares I've purchased over the years, or it 
> may even have been google itself, since everytime you connect to it (if it's 
> the default search engine in your browser), it always asks you to login, and 
> the stupid login screen kept getting in the way, and sometimes caused me to 
> loos my place on the web page, so I finally gave in, setup a google mail 
> account, then ignored it entirely.  I have no idea if I ever got any email 
> to that account or not, and I don't even know what the password is to log 
> back into it if chrome ever forgets the password, but honestly I don't care, 
> because I have no intention of ever using it.
>
> I have my own email addresses, and don't need another one just because some 
> stupid website wanted me to have it.
>
> On 10/16/2021 9:09 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >  Hi Travis,
> >  I am curious.  can you share examples of sites that require a gmail
> >  account?
> >  And yet do not need you to confirm anything by sending you an email to
> >  that account?
> >  Speaking personally, the basic html edition of gmail is profoundly needful
> >  for me, especially as  often things like pdf attachments get
> >  automatically converted to html, and in lynx become plan text.  Same for
> >  word and docx files.
> >  still, I am  personally   unaware of a site that requires the use of
> >  gmail, the option to sign up with your gmail account, yes, but not an
> >  actual mandate.
> >  Do you mind sharing your experiences with this?
> >  Karen
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:
> >
> > >  For what it's worth, when I clicked on that link, it brought me to the 
> > >  google page, and asked me if I was sure I wanted to turn on the html 
> > >  only (or whatever it was) feature of gmail.  I have a gmail account 
> > >  only because some sites require it.  I have never once actually checked 
> > >  said mail, and never plan to.
> > > 
> > >  But, it did work.
> > > 
> > >  On 10/16/2021 4:30 AM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> > > > >   On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > > > > >   Sharing this, in case it helps others.
> > > > > > > >   ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > > >   Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:51:07 +0000
> > > > > > > >  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
> > > >   Zachary Lee Andrews replied:
> > > > 
> > > > >   Am I missing something, the only thing I see in your message is a 
> > > >  gmail
> > > > >   URL that doesn't work...
> > > >   Right, gmail URLs are per-person.  mail.google.com/mail/u/0 is the
> > > >   mailbox of *your* primary logged-in google ID.  For anyone else, 
> > > >  that
> > > >   URL means 'the message with this hash key in *my* mailbox', which is
> > > >   vanishingly unlikely to exist; and if it did, it wouldn't be the 
> > > >  same
> > > >   message anyway.
> > > > 
> > > >   If you want to forward text out of a gmail message, you need to 
> > > >  forward
> > > >   the text, not a gmail URL...
> > > > 
> > > > >   Bela<
> > > >   PS: apologies to Zachary for mistakenly sending 1st copy of this to 
> > > >  him
> > > > 
> > > 
> > >